Appointment of 3 New Commissioners of Appeal for Income Tax

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A decision made (12.05.2009) to approve the report and proposition on the appointment of 3 new Commissioners of Appeal for Income Tax.

Decision Reference: MD-TR-2009 0039
Decision Summary Title:	Appointment of 3 new Commissioners of Appeal for Income Tax		Date of Decision Summary:	17 March 2009
Decision Summary Author:	David Le Cuirot Deputy Comptroller of Income Tax		Decision Summary: Public or Exempt?	Public
Type of Report: Oral or Written?	Written		Person Giving Oral Report:	David Le Cuirot Deputy Comptroller of Income Tax
Written Report Title:	Appointment of 3 new Commissioners of Appeal for Income Tax		Date of Written Report:	17 March 2009
Written Report Author:	David Le Cuirot Deputy Comptroller of Income Tax		Written Report : Public or Exempt?	Public
Subject: Report and proposition on the appointment of 3 new Commissioners of Appeal for Income Tax
Decision(s): The Minister approved the report and proposition on the appointment of 3 new Commissioners of Appeal for Income Tax and requested that it be lodged at the earliest opportunity.
Reason(s) for Decision: To enable the report and proposition on the appointment of 3 new Commissioners of Appeal for Income Tax to be lodged au Greffe, debated as soon as possible and the new Commissioners appointed in due course.
Resource Implications: There are no financial and manpower implications.
Action required: The Deputy Comptroller of Income Tax to forward the report and proposition and accompanying report to the Greffier of the States, and to request that the projet be lodged ‘au Greffe’ and set down for consideration by the States at the earliest opportunity.
Signature:		Position: Senator P.F.C. Ozouf, Minister for Treasury and Resources
Date Signed:		Date of Decision:

Appointment of 3 New Commissioners of Appeal for Income Tax

STATES OF JERSEY

COMMISSIONERS OF APPEAL FOR INCOME TAX:

APPOINTMENT

Lodged au Greffe on …………..

By the Minister of Treasury and Resources

STATES GREFFE

PROPOSITION

THE STATES are asked to decided whether they are of opinion

In accordance with Article 10 of the Income Tax (Jersey) Law 1961, as amended, to approve the appointment as Commissioners of Appeal for Income Tax for a period of three years of:-

Mr. John F. Mills C.B.E.

Mr. Michael R. Lanyon

Mr. Frank Dearie

REPORT

The Assistant Minister for Treasury and Resources Deputy Edward Noel was delegated responsibility for the appointment of the Commissioners of Appeal for Income Tax.

The Commissioners of Appeal hear appeals from decisions of the Comptroller of Income Tax.

Article 10 of the Income Tax (Jersey) Law 1961, as amended, requires that they ‘be chosen from residents in the Island experienced in financial matters, who are not actively interested in any trade, business or profession carried out in the Island’. The positions were advertised in the Jersey Evening Post and the selection process was overseen by the Jersey Appointments Commission.

Frank Dearie

Mr Dearie is shortly to retire after a career of more than 35 years in the Jersey finance industry. Most recently he has been a Private Client Director with the Royal Bank of Canada. Prior to that he was the director in charge of the tax function within the Abacus Financial Services Group.

Mr Dearie is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practioners (STEP); an Associate of Taxation Technicians (ATT) and was previously a committee member of the Jersey Taxation Society.

John F. Mills

Mr. Mills was educated at Highgate School and Oxford University and joined the U.K. civil service in 1974. He worked in a number of Departments in the United Kingdom and in Hong Kong, and in between 1989 and 1992 was a Member of the Prime Minster’s Policy Unit at 10 Downing Street. He was Director of Consumer Affairs, Office of Fair Trading, London from 1992 to 1995 and the Chief Executive of Cornwall County Council from 1995 to 1999. He came to Jersey in 1999 on his appointment as Chief Executive of the Policy and Resources Committee and worked in this role until 2003. From 2003 until his retirement in 2007 he was Director of Rural Policy, Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, London (Defra). He now lives in St. Saviour.

He has undertaken a wide range of other roles outside his work career. He is currently acting Chairman of the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust and a non-executive director of the Port of London Authority. Since 1999 he has been Chairman of the Governing body of Highgate School, London."

Michael Lanyon

Mr. Lanyon left Jersey in 1962 for the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst and served in the British Army for twenty one years. He returned to the Island in 1984 to take up the post of Director, Jersey Airport – retiring in 2006.

He is a member of the Institute of Directors and was a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute (Jersey Branch Founding Chairman),